Thursday, June 23, 2011

Monthly Pirate Update


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Our 3rd meeting of our Legends of the High Seas Campaign took place on Tuesday evening. 6 crews fighting for domination in our little mock up of the Caribbean circa 1720. My Royal Navy Crew took its lumps losing both games this week, however both losses where totally negligible in the campaign phase where I had only permanent losses of a few able Seamen. I played my own Raise the Flag scenario, which went quite well until a bad round turned things around...I ended up conceding before I took a chance as my very experienced hero's having to roll on that scary injury chart, even with the Surgeon I am wary..in fact my Midshipman took a chest wound and is now Defense 2. Still Adam and I agreed it was one of the better games we both played in the campaign.

The second game was quite similar as we demoed my scenario on my ship wreck board. Joe, my opponent had a larger crew than I did, got to both wrecks first and found all the chests quickly (which have to moved to your D zone to score)bad luck, placement, and poor rolls on shooting to wounds..had me breaking first and things went south quickly again I conceded.I did manage to capture on of Adams heroes.(via "Captured" on the injury chart) so he and I will play prison break first thing next week. 2 rounds, 4 games to go. As usual scoring update, etc are on my Legends of the High Seas campaign blog


Goes to this, you best give up the ship or meet Davey Jones locker.



Just a teaser WIP pic of new lighthouse for the shipwreck board, looks much more appropriate. Top section goes on this weekend. photos soon.

2 comments:

Scottswargaming said...

Nice report, I like it. The light house is coming on well.
Interesting to see navy crews being used aswell, most of the folks (me included) we play with here always go for pirate or privateer crews.
Just wondering from your experiences, have you found any suitable figures for navy crews of other countries: Spanish, French Dutch etc?
Cheers
Scott

JPL said...

Having always played Pirates myself
I thought the Navy be a nice change
there were supposed to be two Navy players but the other one had to drop last minute.
there is good supply of Navy figures out there but as far as I've seen they are all British...I even have Lord Nelson himself!..

 

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